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The Effective Republic: Administration and Constitution In the Thought of Alexander Hamilton
Role: Author
Written by a former Dean of St. John鈥檚 College.
In The Effective Republic, Harvey Flaumenhaft shows how the study of Alexander Hamilton’s political thought opens the way to understanding the nature of this republic and the reasons for its development. Although Hamilton exterted an extraordinary influence on American institutions, his contribution and the thinking behind it often have been obscured and misconstrued by piecemeal approaches to his voluminous writings. Here, Flaumenhaft draws upon more than two dozen volumes of Hamilton’s papers to produce a comprehensive account of his thought on the principles of politics – the account which Hamilton himself hoped to give in a multi-volume treatise, but died before producing it.
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